breeding

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They must also keep farming or breeding records.
他们还必须对耕作或饲养做好记录。
The breeding of snakes is serious business in America.
在美国，蛇类繁殖是一项重要的交易。
Breeding has produced types of wheat which can be grown in the north.
通过育种已培养出可在北方种植的小麦品种。
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The first breeding line is expected to be released this year for use by private seed companies and public soybean breeders.
They are engaged in raising livestock, which in Greece is more likely to be sheep and goats than cattle, but also breeding horses, which is very important for the aristocracy for carrying on warfare.
他们擅长豢养牲畜,在当地似乎养绵羊和山羊比牛要来的容易,但是他们同样养马,这对于贵族阶层发动战争很重要
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Scientists are using biotechnology as well as traditional breeding methods to develop water-saving crops to feed a growing world.

Beijing has not closed down the breeding businesses and reacts only when there is negative publicity.
FORBES: Tigercide

(ANIMALS) the keeping of animals or plants in order to breed from them
(BEHAVIOUR) polite and socially correct behaviour that someone has because they were taught it as a child

If someone says that a person has breeding, they mean that they think the person is from a good social background and has good manners.
&rarrsee also breed